CEP 416-Universal Design for Learning Template

For this assignment, you will focus on the technologies that you picked for last week's activity, and you will
make sure that they comply with UDL principles. Remember that simply using technology in the classroom is
not enough; we want to purposefully think about how technology enhances learning and how we can best plan
it into our activity to achieve intended learning goals.

YOUR NAME: Sara Gorman

ACTIVITY GOAL(S):

The students will be able to correctly use confused words such as stated in the standard below. If they do not
understand how to correctly use it, then they will get help from another student, of me.

TECHNOLOGIES USED FOR ACTIVITY (please provide a URL link to it if applicable):

Laptops with Google docs

Projector to hook up laptop to

UDL CHECKLIST
(adapted from CAST UDL curriculum self-check)

Flexible media and materials play an essential role in helping students achieve activity/lesson goals. The
principles below help you consider what could/could not work for all your students with the media and materials
included in your activity.

UDL principle Example Explain how the technology you picked

Multiple and varied media are used
to present concepts and content
Materials and media provide visual
equivalents for auditory information
and vice versa as needed
Text, images, graphics, audio,
video, and multimedia
Captions for videos, text outlines
for lectures, text-to-speech or
digital voice tools for text
for the activity provides that?
(add URL links, descriptions,
screenshots, etc if necessary)
They use Google docs to write in their text.
This allows them to see other students
writing as well. After they are done typing up
their story, they can add in a picture from
Google images that relates well in their
story.
I will have the directions written on the
Google doc at the top as well as have them
on my computer that is hooked up to the
projector in front of the class.

Google docs can have the language be

Options for diverse
linguistic/language abilities are
provided in materials and media
Visual organizers, rubrics, and
checklists are available to help
students to learn, plan, and complete
lessons
Hyperlinked multimedia glossary
definitions; foreign language
translations; language modality
translationsASL/speech
Using advanced organizers
changed when typing. If there are words
students need to look up, they can open a
new tab in the browser and go to a
dictionary website.
Each student will have a box in the Google
doc to tell them where to type up their story.
Once they change the color of their text to
green, that means they are finished. At that
point they go look for another student who is

Materials and media are designed to
help students monitor their own
progress and promote self-reflection
Materials and media provide
students with varied levels of
challenge and support to address
diverse abilities and challenges
Comparing work over time
during the activity, picking their
best work, choosing new
personal goals
More structured vs. open-ended
tasks in the activity, different
levels of difficulty
done and will correct their story by using the
color red and typing their name below their
peers story to show that someone has
edited it. This will allow students to see who
still needs their story to be edited and who is
already done. I will have the requirements
on the top of the document as well as having
it projected from my computer in front of the
class.
After they finish editing their peers stories,
they will go back to theirs and see what
comments have been made. From there,
they can utilize the comments part of the
document to talk with their peer about why
they need to change something and learn
from their mistakes. They can work together
to help understand the way to use the
confusing words.
This activity is more open-ended as they can
make up a story as long as it uses the
confusion words. Then they can choose a
picture to relate to the story. Then they must
work to edit someone elses work as well as
going back over their work to see what they
need to fix. Any changes they make after
need to be written in parenthesis in blue to
show me what they have learned.

EVALUATION

Based on your responses, how would you modify your media and materials to address the diverse challenges,
talents, and preferences of your students? (answer one)

If your technology provides support for UDL principles (e.g., 4 out of 6 principles), what are other
student challenges or preferences that you could anticipate in this activity?
o Students may become confused with everyone writing on the same document. It will move as
more words are added in as well as pictures. Creating groups for the students to write in and
having them edit someones story from their group can decrease the amount of movement in
the document. This way if they want to scroll to the top to look at the directions, instead of
looking at the front of the room, they wont have as far to go. Some students may have mastered
the differences in the confusion words and therefore do not need much editing from their peers,
but using the comments, they can help those who are struggling more.

If your technology does not provide support for UDL principles (e.g., less than 4 principles), how would
you modify your media and materials to address the diverse challenges, talents, and preferences of
your students?

REFLECTION
 (participation points for this week).

Briefly describe your thoughts about the UDL-ization process:

1) How is UDL changing how you view technology for teaching and learning?
a. It is opening my eyes to how hard it can be to incorporate technology into the classroom that will
accommodate every student. One thing might work for one group of students, but not for others.
This makes it hard to please every student. However, it does make sure that the technology
being used is in fact useful and will have a positive impact on the activity as opposed to not
using technology at all. UDL makes sure that the technology enhances the learning of students
instead of taking away from learning.

2) How will you implement UDL in your future classroom?

a. I will make sure to go over the principles when making a lesson plan and using a new
technology to make sure that my students will indeed learn better from it. UDL will help me to
come up with alternative methods and styles to teach the same topic so that everyone will come
to an understanding. Each student is different and therefore needs to be taught in a way that is
tailored to their needs and strengths. Knowing this, I will come up with multiple activities to
reinforce a topic so that each student can have an activity to refer back to that they really
understood when being assessed on their knowledge.